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So independent of the number of threads on our machine, or the overall size of the Zeebe cluster, there is always exactly one thread that writes to a certain log. To avoid this contention and associated queueing effects all state should be owned by a single writer for mutation purposes, thus following the Single Writer Principle. Either of these protection mechanisms cause queues to form as contended updates are applied.
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As Martin Thompson wrote:Ĭontended access to mutable state requires mutual exclusion or conditional update protection. With Zeebe we solve this by using the Single Writer Principle. When you use a RDMS this is often implemented via optimistic locking or some database magic. When you have multiple clients accessing one workflow instance at the same time, you need to have some kind of conflict detection and resolution. We regularly discuss making storage logic pluggable - for example support Cassandra - but so far we’ve focused on file system and it might even be the best choice for most use cases, as it is simply the fastest and most reliable option. Currently this is the only supported option. Zeebe writes the log to disk and RocksDB also flushes its state to disk. This allows us to keep the log clean and tidy at all times, without losing the benefits of an append-only log and stream processing - as described in a minute. I’ll come back to “completely processed” later on. As soon as we have completely processed an event and applied it to the snapshot, we delete it right away. Our experiments clearly showed, that it is not only inefficient to do log compaction, but also, the resulting log becomes very fragmented. Unfortunately this is really complex to do, as events from a single workflow instance might be scattered all over the place - especially if you keep in mind that workflow instances can run for days or even months. In an ideal world we could, for example, remove events for all ended workflow instances. Your hard disk simply performs better if you do sequential writes instead of random ones.Īs the log grows over time, you have to think about deleting old data from it, which is called log compaction.
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The typical strategy is optimistic or pessimistic locking combined with ACID guarantees of the database. This situation must be recognized and avoided. The counter example is a RDMS: if multiple nodes update the same data in parallel, the updates overwrite each other.
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Conflicting changes to the state are always captured as two immutable events in a clear sequence, so that the event sourced application can decide how to resolve that conflict deterministically.
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Quick hint for DDD enthusiasts: These events are Zeebe internal and related to the workflow state. Both are considered to be records in the log. This means that all changes to the workflow state are captured as events and these events are stored in an event log alongside commands. Zeebe is based on ideas from event sourcing. Folks -you do truly awesome work and will change the (workflow automation) world! Rock on! Event sourcing This should give you a proper idea of how we entered the new era of cloud-scale workflow automation, which my co-founder named “big workflow”.īut I want to give kudos to the Zeebe team first. I will go over important concepts used in Zeebe and explain decisions we made on the way. I hinted at Zeebe’s key ingredients: a truly distributed system without any central component, designed according to top-notch distributed computing concepts, in line with the reactive manifesto, applying techniques from high performance computing. I revealed that Zeebe plays in the same league as e.g. I showed how this allows you to leverage workflow automation in a lot more use cases, also in low latency, high-throughput scenarios. In Zeebe.io - a horizontally scalable distributed workflow engine I explained that Zebee is a super performant, highly scalable and resilient cloud-native workflow engine (yeah - buzzwords checked!).